🎵 Akala Reaction Fire in the Booth Pt 4 🔥 | Americans React to UK Rap

[@alexisdonaldson3430]

Not Creole, he is saying he is a "Griot", a traditonal west african storytelling poet,😊. Great reaction!! Check out Thieves Banquet !!

[@BradAndLex]

Ohhh ok! That makes sense! Alright, we got it in our list!

[@dhamp_]

@@BradAndLex He talks about it at length in one of his TED Talks.

[@philbowyer874]

Alexis ....at last somebody on one of these reaction comments explain it right lol.... he's talking about how he's studied his craft and followed the roots of it through history . Respect.

[@calizone352]

@@philbowyer874 thank you for noticing, I took world 🌍 music 🎶 class which allowed me to catch the "Griot" line the 1st time i heard this, every reaction seems to miss that line..

[@ReachySmalls]

@@BradAndLex kzbin.info/www/bejne/fGTTpnR6qcehlZo This akalas most respected freestyle from his UK fans. Immortal technique story telling levels

[@tomfoolery9749]

Akala is a gift to humanity.

[@zoned_n_stoned4514]

Akala murder runs the globe too. He owns a library, he used to be a footballer, hes involved in our political views, he writes playes music books. He is a professor his oxford lecture on youtube check it out. This guy wins life guys

[@rupeoverlay3153]

I love watching people react to the second part of this. Such a powerful piece of work. You can google everything he’s talking about, it’s a massive history lesson

[@Dinojong]

Also you guys should know that Akala also started a company called Hiphop Shakespeare where he teaches the Bard using hiphop. He has many grads of the school who have become very respected people in the community.

[@omh186]

That last section is one of the most beautifully visual journeys I've ever been taken on. great reaction

[@LeeXRV]

Akala is a scholar first and a rapper second. He mentions lecturing at Oxford University which he’s done and at various other institutions, you’ll find his history lectures on KZbin if you’re interested. His intellect is genius level and as good as he is at music, it’s just one of his many talents.

[@BradAndLex]

We'll check them out

[@haloksable]

Professor Akala is actually a rapper first since he was rapping before his teenage years.

[@index7989]

His sister is Miss Dynamite.. just an FYI. His family is musically talented

[@josh0g]

His Oxford lecture is amazing. I've gone back to that and rewatched it at least a dozen times now. The Q&A at the end is skippable though.

[@united46]

Love the interaction peeps. Akala grm daily, murder runs the globe, the maangamizi and f64 should get u going lol

[@BradAndLex]

Thanks! Definitely going to check these out. Good looks!

[@dannykeating9187]

The maangamazi is so great, deep real and a real visual story

[@ponego2821]

Sbtv s2.ep2

[@MidnightIam]

Griot is a West African troubadour-historian storyteller.

[@rachelbush7134]

Great reaction much love from the UK 🇬🇧

[@markgormley7021]

Akala is a legend!!!!! Many many years Righteous,good guy

[@Dinojong]

The second part is him as the "Knowledge Seeker" experiencing the pain of the world. He can feel everything because he is both the protector and aggressor in each story/battle. Hence he can feel both sides of every battle. When he dropped the napalm he then felt the burning of the napalm being both sides of the coin. The graphic novel takes us through some of histories battles. Also human are worse than animal because animals do not kill or exploit the environment to the point of complete depletion.

[@laughingoutloud8612]

Thanks for this, saved me the effort 😂 🙌🏻

[@BradAndLex]

Ahhh okay it's making more sense now. Good point. We're definitely fked for now

[@MsBabylove11]

@@BradAndLex just so you know.... Akala litterally explained what he was about to rap about before he started.... The knowledge seeker in the story at this point in the book is dying and being reborn in different conflicts throughout history x hope that helps xxx ♥ xxx big shout out to you guys from London 👋 🤜💥🤛

[@creativequeen8371]

Thank you

[@skyebates246]

Why are you having to explain the poem wasn't it completely obvious. Really well said by him.

[@jayryall7324]

Yo, your take on him having his own mic is perfect, if theres ever a part 5 !!

[@joeynarag4480]

“He’s as Kool as the other side of the pillow!!!” Bwahaha .......love that !!

[@phobsdsr4326]

It would be hard to ever find another piece of musical art that can level up with this right here. Akala laid it all down. Showed his talents to the peak. Flows, content, rhyme schemes and poetry. How does he make it that visual? That’s a man who sitting on his own cloud ⛅️ Absolutely amazing and rating you guys for your reactions, you on point and pick up a lot.

[@cardi1978]

You feeling you’re experiencing it shows that he executed what he wanted to to perfection. Imo everything he does is to make people think deeply, as he does.

[@lrnldn6009]

Akala has a book about the rise and fall of the human empire over time, this spoken word piece is from that book. It’s so powerful and all true ❤️🇬🇧

[@concernedcitizen8939]

Great reaction. Appreciate your patience in seeing it through. The UK scene has now become the standard bearer for the genre. Keep doing what you are doing.

[@marchamill8530]

Love your love for this. Akala is special. His knowledge is second to non. He has a lecture he gave to Oxford University on KZbin. If you really want see Akala the scholar check it out. Definitely worth watching. Great reaction guys.

[@johntree6425]

Just fell on you guys today. LOVE what you are doing. Without wanting to sound condescending, you’re really listening. Inexplicably rare in your field. Keep up the good work... I’m subscribing :)

[@andrewpeters6339]

He teaches at Oxford. Check out his black history lectures on You Tube!

[@BradAndLex]

Will do!

[@jimferry6539]

Brad & Lex react to the Oxford lecture

[@danic9304]

Oh man - I had an early finish today as work owed me some time back - feeling groovy about that , then boot up my computer and come to KZbin to find something to chill out with and find this! V. excited

[@BradAndLex]

Thanks for supporting us! 🙏🏾

[@markbates6610]

You have a beautiful partner my man she has a great heart and a beautiful face, much love from the UK. You are a great man keep it up. What a lovely soul you both have.

[@BradAndLex]

Thank you for that 🙏🏾 Don’t hear too many people building each other up these days! Big ups to the UK!!

[@markbates6610]

@@BradAndLex keep your dream going brother, treat your princess well.

[@davidbond4595]

Many thanks.. really great reaction and very intelligent and articulate response. 😎

[@momackone]

You should see some of his interviews such an intelligent, talented young man.

[@livibam]

You 2 are a whole vibe.. keep it going. Peace and love from the UK.

[@danic9304]

When he was introducing that second piece he explained it was from a part of the story in which the main character, the Knowledge Seeker, is being born and reborn into moments of conflict throughout history. As far as his inspiration for the story - I believe it was partly inspired by an 18th Century French novel

[@DanielleSimone21]

Hey 👋🏽 expected to see you here!

[@danic9304]

@@DanielleSimone21 Hi! Wondered where you were :P

[@saraplunkett2285]

The real question is where is Brian Harking? 🤣🤣

[@danic9304]

@@saraplunkett2285 That is an excellent question...

[@robssteven]

Fire in the Booth was a segment on a radio show by DJ Charlie Sloth to get artists to show off their skills.

[@gulliegulliver4546]

Akala is legend, teacher, prophet, artist par excellence.

[@DanielleSimone21]

Me from Northampton UK again.... I love your reactions to Akala!! This is brilliant 💛 Don’t forget to check his thieves banquet freestyle (not the album track) He also dropped a ‘daily duppy’ in 2020 which is his most recent music, it’s also amazing, in my opinion.... although very under rated!!! ♥️

[@BradAndLex]

Ayyyy Northampton in the house!! Thank you! 🙏🏾 Definitely going to check out all of his music!! Slowly but surely we'll work through the list

[@dangoodman4488]

NN3

[@DanielleSimone21]

@@dangoodman4488 NN1

[@glyndwrjohn6383]

Nn1!

[@creativequeen8371]

Leeds, UK up in here! Big up!

[@vonvard]

You guys are awesome. Another amazing t-shirt too. Love from the UK

[@flyshallowfax]

I'm new to this channel and so glad I watched. I instantly liked you guys. "are you just Chilling with a beer and some Ice Cream" cracked me up! Great stuff and keep it up!

[@justlooking1087]

Akala is really something else, I went to one of his concerts before and it was super intimate. It was like a concert and a lecture combined. He’s a really intelligent guy, some people act like they know what they’re talking about when they talk but he is well studied.

[@aldanielfrancis5190]

That was brilliant 🤣 you said I'm changed 🤣 he does that to you 🤣

[@jamesgorden5383]

AKALA Find no enemy ......great one.

[@BradAndLex]

We gotta check that one out 🔥

[@EessaTube]

That end bit is from his graphic novel. It is the words of one of the characters in the story, who sees everything, feels everything and was everywhere.

[@PaulJakma]

"Ends [is not worth killing for]" - "ends" is like a London youth word for "hood". In London, the youth gangs have their territories - defined by their postcode (zip code). If a kid goes from their "ends" to another, they could get killed for it - he's saying that post/zip code, territorial gang stuff is stupid.

[@alexreid4131]

There’s levels to everything. Akala is on his own level. You can’t touch it. Just listen and learn.

[@skyblustu8788]

Knowledge is Power and Power is Knowledge in the right minds is the truthful Historical Account of Human History Akala a different league true facts 🔥🔥🔥💯

[@YAH3786]

You should watch his talks on insta.. this is a VERY educated man, who's continuing to fight the good fight.

[@kratonmajapahit7386]

In the final part he is in a “we” state. Beyond the me state, it’s a spoken journey from ego to egolessness. Great compassion is needed to align. There is knowledge but I feel the main element to access this art fully is through the heart

[@MrWestie1985]

Not an Akala recommendation, but Lowkey Obamanation (Parts 1 and 2) explores the duality you were talking about and are well worth a look ✌️

[@BradAndLex]

Oooh sounds interesting. Definitely going to have to check it out! Thanks!

[@karmannghiaman1041]

@@BradAndLex Lowkey Obama Nation 1&2 and Terrorist 1&2 along with Ahmad are so thought provoking. Lowkey, Akala and Mic Righteous remind me of a modern day Linton Kwesi Johnson in their subject matter in their passion and their politics.

[@marlonthomas8042]

@@BradAndLex his fire in the booth both parts are amazing

[@channel55andaboxoftissues16]

can't believe Black the Ripper is dead, he's younger than me.

[@marlonthomas8042]

Yeah you guys earned a sub 👌🏽

[@BradAndLex]

🙏🏾🙏🏽🖤

[@ubuntuafrique5802]

He’s not a creole. He’s like he said in his rap “half of a Celt (Scottish) and half a Maroon (Jamaican)”

[@munyaradzimuzividzi3618]

Shouldn't let other rappers spit on the same Mic 🤣🤣🤣 Brilliant

[@N1Moses]

Fire in the booth is the largest freestyle platform in the world, alot of the larger american artists have done it too.

[@BradAndLex]

Oh wow. Didn't know it was that big!

[@Liz-dragon-street.]

@@BradAndLex many US artist were there 2 indeed! Drake, Token, Dax, Fabolous, Pop smoke, MGK, US Logic (UK has a Logic as well, he did a dope song with Mic Righteous called In this Dunya) and many more.. i have 2 say this, UK artist can't be touched on there own platform✌🏽 and that is a fact! 😎

[@deeabkey7663]

We are blessed to have DR Akala here in the UK. Read his book it’s fantastic

[@mags1080p]

Love this one one!!! Please do Wretch 32 - Fire In The Booth!

[@BradAndLex]

Thank you! Will do

[@nayimsammour8911]

100% Wretch 32 is an absolute madness

[@DnBSkunk]

@@nayimsammour8911 all of them

[@activistbook3809]

Please react to his oxford talk. Its epic. Subbed.

[@bearded_z0mbiegaming108]

Fire in the booth is a freestyle section on the radio

[@bearded_z0mbiegaming108]

Also he's mixed black afro Caribbean an white.

[@chief-jayfiji7834]

Great reaction guys,imagine if History and other subjects were taught like this in school 💯👊🏾

[@BradAndLex]

History would have been everyone's favorite subject!

[@ReachySmalls]

Fire in the booth is a radio show. Think like sway and his five fingers of death. Some artist freestyles and some of the write a bar for it. I wouldn't be surprised of he did this 3style. He has the genius to run that

[@thetruth1822]

Akala - visions That track is mind blowing. Honestly, watch it and you'll see.

[@cjdunn95]

Awesome reaction. Akalas smile in this performance is similar to sporting greats like Bolt, Micheal Jordan, Tiger Woods when they were at the top of their game. Effortlessly deliver an end level boss performance like it's a walk in the park.

[@makaveliuk86]

Great reaction as always you 2!been great watching you go through Akala's journey, and you're right,he's definitely more spiritual now,I think growing his locks out has quite a bit to do with that, don't know what it is,but there's something spiritual for men when we grow our hair out 🤔 Oh and he means it when he says he's a genius, even tho he had to deal with teachers marking him down(as we learnt in the previous ones),he still managed to be one of the top 5,maybe even top 3 mathematicians in the country at the age of 15.....and that was just school,it really showed when he left...👀

[@opticbiscuits]

Should check out the fire in the booth 2014 cypher, it's got sooo many 🔥 artists including akala and mic righteous, it's a long video so could split it in to parts as the video itself is like 45 mins long 😂 but it's worth it

[@BradAndLex]

Sheesh, maybe even 3 parts!

[@frankiilynx]

This was fantastic, definitely the one I've been looking forward to the most! If you enjoyed all of these, I recommend checking out Find No Enemy as well, it's a similarly deep tune

[@creativequeen8371]

Akala is The G.O.A.T. Conscious. Talented. Can put a racist in his place like no one else, so calmly and mad up dem ignorant backside. Strait. To boot, when met him and asked him a question, his response was respectful, thoughtful and meaningful. Pure respect. Love from the UK

[@lourobinson4177]

Akala daily duppy 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@ShellyMHall]

I love you guys you're so funny and I really really love AKALA

[@EessaTube]

Some of his lectures and TV appearances are on KZbin. Well worth watching.

[@alfiepotter9799]

React to Dave fire in the booth, he was only 17 when he done it

[@jamiesmith9743]

One of the best from us in the UK :)

[@Urban_Paradise]

The :Hip-hop opera at the end has to be one of my favorite things I've heard. It's next level

[@BradAndLex]

Right? Incredible. And so interesting. I feel like i went to the theater briefly 😆🤷🏽‍♀️

[@zoned_n_stoned4514]

Watching from Uk akala is the goat 😎 do akala visions live radio one (its about his life in 5 chapters). Do mic righteous fire in the booth, bugzy malone fire in the booth, lowkey fire in the booth too :)

[@iamsam432]

I just felt if any description matching for Akala, it got to be ‘rap prophet’

[@Phil-p7p]

YES ... Lex, you DO need Akala in American schools. In the UK we need him in our schools too!

[@giants2k8]

I would put Akala above any other rapper in terms of intellectual substance that pose profound questions about the human condition and the history of the world. I look at Akala more as a real poet than just a rapper. He touches on topics that you’d have to go to a university lecture to hear. Or from a book. He is unbelievable. If you’re interested, he actually presents a ten minute episode talking and analyzing one of the greatest poets to ever live: Percy B. Shelley. He analyzes his exquisite poem Ozymandias. Akala is an intellectual, he has given talks at Oxford University. Which is probably the most prestigious university in the UK along with Cambridge.

[@Dinojong]

Murder Runs the Globe would be a good song to do next.

[@BradAndLex]

We'll put it on the list! Been getting a lot of Requests for Akala's Daily Duppy

[@cardhunter4818]

hello great reaction have you ever heard his sister ms dynamite she was big in the uk 2000s

[@guguncube2308]

He doesnt come up with it he is a scholar well read one at that

[@Simon-lw4uc]

He’s rhyming all true historical disgusting situations and conflicts through the whole of time

[@Liz-dragon-street.]

Akala 🤯🌏

[@johickey3158]

its the most visual spoken experience I've ever come across, Akala has been my scholar hero for a long time now, so glad you mentioned Libya too, add so many more countries to that long list with USA's military budget etc and UK's support with russiagate/Syria, and it doesn't loo positive. ope without evidence is delusion after all.Capitalism is by definition predatory, much love and respect from UK :)

[@nickachief]

he was breaded up in fire in the booth 1, pure class

[@djhousedog]

He said before the start of the spoken word part that he was a character being born and reborn through different parts of history

[@Delavega45]

Fire in the booth is like a platform that different MC’s perform in.

[@JamesWatts926]

Just started watching your channel and youre both very good at dissecting UK rap tunes, I live and breed Original UK rap, unfortunately it's dieing out and drill is taking over but for me it'll never be on the same level as rap, the authenticity, the realness and the relatable heart touching content that it brings, akala is a different breed but if you want to listen to real road rap that the mandem of the UK has really lived that life listen to k koke, giggs, tiny boost, skrapz and there just a couple of suggestions

[@JamesWatts926]

Just too add as well my top 5 fire in the booths 1) K koke 2) Avelino & Wretch 32 3) Nines 1 4) Akala 5) Krept and Konan What is your favourite so far that you've listened too?

[@EessaTube]

Check out some of his songs - 'Find No Enemy', 'Yours and My Children', 'Bullshit', 'Carried Away', 'Murder Runs the Globe'. And, if you get the chance to ever see him live, go and see him. Awesome experience.

[@arronlukepit4833]

Akala: race and class in the ruins of empire is his book get that!!.

[@DnBSkunk]

He's done a daily duppy last year if you wanna know what he was like in 2020

[@lourobinson4177]

Kano fire in the booth 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@creativequeen8371]

Respect you guys. New subbie. Stay well

[@BradAndLex]

❤️❤️🙌🏽💪🏽🔥 hey Creative Queen!!

[@qwizzle78]

We need the lowkey fire in the booths

[@deanola77]

In his own lane boy is a genius

[@MichaelSmith-bn6hm]

The word Charlie is looking for to describe Akala is polymath 😂✌❤

[@Bnathann]

Look up the history of fire in the booth, you'll come to respect how much it's done for young artists

[@jdenton1337]

You guys should react to Akala's hip hop and Shakespeare tedtalk type of video

[@outlawking4106]

It’s funny when you talk about Columbus at the end because one of the first things he wrote about meeting the Native Americans was that they had spears and tools with African engravings on them. America has one of the most deluded versions of world history, Churchill said “History is written by the victors” in other worlds you’ll believe what your told cause there’s no one that can prove its wrong.

[@broughy23]

Please react to his daily duppy. He absolutely bodies it

[@NANA-kn7of]

Akala is not into black magic. He is half English half Jamaican. He has a incredible discipline to studying history and the poem at the end was going through generations of war and slavery seeing through both eye. If you two want to see more into this brilliant man’s mind watch this link

[@johickey3158]

you could try his Shakespeare lectures or oxford history one is pretty banging

[@bearded_z0mbiegaming108]

Check out his older sister ms dynamite, she was a big garage MC back in the day 🔥🔥🔥

[@BradAndLex]

Will do! Thanks for the rec

[@AndyT81]

@@BradAndLex I would compare her album to the UK version of Lauren Hill's 'The Miseducation of Lauren Hill'.

[@aldanielfrancis5190]

She's a legend

[@aldanielfrancis5190]

@@AndyT81 Her album A little Deeper is must have classic i think it's can rival any uk rap albums past and present 🎁

[@AndyT81]

@@aldanielfrancis5190 most definitely!! Love that album. Thats the one that I compare with Lauren's Hills in the sense that Lauren Hill's the miseducation has a deep message throughout the album and all the tracks are timeless, in that the music stays fresh, and like you said, could be released today and rival the music that is out now. A little deeper is one of my favourites. I played that album a lot and know every track, prob off by heart lol.

[@emilyb5278]

The men who dropped off the atom bomb mission was so secret, when the ship was hit by a Japanese bomb and went down it took weeks to save them because nobody new they were there, most died from dehydration but alot were eaten by tiger sharks. It was so horrific that they tried to cover up what happened. I first heard about it on the film jaws.

[@craigsimpson3901]

Have you two reacted to any of the prodigy, big following in england ,something different ,dance beats ,not sure what yous would think

[@syetemaskm7706]

Akala - Shakespeare was the very first song I heard from him back about 2005 ish, it's more a 'traditional' type of hip hop/rap song, not like his FITB

[@munyaradzimuzividzi3618]

Ok watched ur reaction to Wretch and Avelino, and I thought they went over ur heads a bit, ofcourse the accent is a big factor. U do try and hear ( those who have ears let them hear) the consciousness though and for that , respect. For this one u've got urselves a new sub

[@bpavitt5588]

Watch him flex on his Daily Duppy... trust me flexing... God bless

[@BradAndLex]

Can't wait to see it!

[@svodcat7524]

'Cool as the other side of the pillow' Damnn. Stealing that one.

[@jacksmith4460]

37:30 haha loved this bit hahaha (the bigger world other dimension thing lool)

[@BradAndLex]

Lol thank you, Jack!!

[@jacksmith4460]

@@BradAndLex No probs, keep up the great content You 2 are great fun and breakdown the bars well . Much love from Bristol UK

[@jacksmith4460]

@@BradAndLex I got something for ya...its a hidden gem, not really reaction material, because they are not well known...but this is one of best hip hop album form the UK that no one has ever heard. Se Fire : Match in the Ocean kzbin.info/www/bejne/gJqWfHRsjrCreZo

[@mgrimble3975]

Check out a couple of his actual songs :D Carried Away. Murder runs the globe.

[@BradAndLex]

Bet! Thanks for the suggestions

[@charlottebank80]

@@BradAndLex love Carried away, A message and thieves banquet are also brilliant